About Us

Project South’s mission is to eliminate poverty and genocide by building strong social movements for power rooted in Black Radical Traditions. 

Project South is a Southern-based leadership development organization that creates spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership and to provide popular, political, and economic education for personal and social transformation. We build relationships with organizations and networks across the US and global South to inform our local work and to engage in bottom-up movement building for social and economic justice.

Leadership

Emery Wright
Executive Director
La’Die Mansfeld
Director of Programs
Azadeh Shahashani
Director of Legal and Advocacy
Hanifah Shoatz-Bey
Director of Operations
Shelley Danzy
Director of Development
Marc Turk
Director of Finance
Annie Thomas
Director of Southern Organizing
Ra’Niqua Lee
Associate Director

Staff

Stephanie Guilloud
Movement Organizing Senior Strategist
Priyanka Bhatt
Senior Staff Attorney
Nanyamka Shukura
Movement Administrative Coordinator
Bassey Etuk
Movement Organizer
Imani Austin
Organizing Programs Assistant
Nautica Jenkins
Youth Programs Multimedia Coordinator
Ayinde Summers
Land and Freedom Project Coordinator
Aljosie Aldrich Harding
Movement Elder in Residence
Desiree Evans
Senior Narrative Strategist
Evelyn Zachary
Movement Organizer
Brandon Pittman
Facilities Maintenance Assistant
Solidad Tillman
Operations Manager
Jemar Raheem
Education & Training
Kumasi Amin
Movement Organizer
Tina Al-kherson
Staff Attorney
Sofía Veronica Montez
Staff Attorney

Hunger Coalition of Atlanta

Carolyn Pittman
Executive Director
Antionio Barksdale
Director of Operations
Toyia Gray
Community Organizer/ MALC Coordinator
Melissa Pittman
Director of Administration
Kenyetta Brown
Project Coordinator, Hunger Hotline
Randall Pittman
Operations Assistant
Bryanna Bassey
Volunteer